Author: markinsanfran

Cross-posted at dailykos and mleftwing Apparently the Bush administration’s war on science is now being assisted by the New York Times, who were so helpful in facilitating the war on Iraq. From the New York Times Book...

Cross-posted at dKos and MyLeftWing It’s not that the AP article on the SOTU entitled Bush Skips Complex Realities in Address actually says Bush is toast. But try to imagine such a headline a year ago. More SOTU and Bush...

Crossposted at MyLeftWing and at the orange empire When I saw the picture of Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.com, on the cover, I just had to read the article. I really like craigslist.com; I even used it successfully to...

As some of you know, I have been extending my blogging activities into the realm of video, beginning with my interview of Prof. Juan Cole. I have now created a new website: http://www.RealityBasedTV.com to provide a focus for...

Crossposted at you-know-where and Myleftwing

Juan Cole reports that the fraud is too obvious to ignore:

Al-Hayat reports that 643,000 votes were cast in Ninevah Province (capital: Mosul). At the time it filed, 419,000 had been preliminarily counted, and the vote was running 75 percent in favor. Ninevah Province was the most likely place that Sunni Arabs opposing the constitution might be able to get a 2/3s “no” vote.

Several of my knowledgeable readers are convinced that the Ninevah voting results as reported so far look like fraud. One suspected that the Iraqi government so feared a defeat there that they over-did the ballot stuffing and ended up with an implausible result.

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